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America's 'Great Immigrants'
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 153

America's 'Great Immigrants'

This book highlights the immense contributions that immigrants make to the greatness of the United States, especially during this period of extreme negative views of immigrants and anti-immigrant government policies. It examined the Carnegie Corporation of New York's 'Great Immigrants: the Pride of America' honorees from 2006 to 2015 and found that the 408 honorees during this period came from 87 countries and diverse professions. It also found that among the honorees are 24 Nobel Prize winners. Several of the honorees studied at Columbia University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Princeton University, Stanford University, the University of Ca...

Profile of Contributors to the American Economic Review, 2010: Human Capital Theory, Gender and Race
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 92

Profile of Contributors to the American Economic Review, 2010: Human Capital Theory, Gender and Race

This study begins by presenting an explanation of the Human Capital Theory and its relation to gender and race. Next, the methodology, data availability and limitations section of the study is presented. Next, the study presents the statistical findings and analysis of the compiled and computed data. Finally, the study presents a discussion section, focusing more attention on the various factors responsible for the wide gender and racial gaps in the statistics presented.

Bridging the Race and Gender Gaps
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 130

Bridging the Race and Gender Gaps

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-11-26
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Bridging the race and Gender gaps examines the gradual increase of women and minorities among MacArthur Fellows from 1981 to 2018. The book shows that while men continue to be in the majority, women have been closing the gap, especially in the past decade. It also shows that while White Fellows (including those with ancestry from Western or Central Asia, not just Europe) continue to be dominant, minorities have increased their share among all Fellows, with Black men, Asian men, and Native American women having higher proportions than their adult proportions in the United States. The gender gap is however not closing as rapidly as the race gap. The book tries to account for the gaps between r...

Monitoring the Health of U.S. Professional Athletes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 144

Monitoring the Health of U.S. Professional Athletes

TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE Introduction...................................................................... CHAPTER TWO Conceptualizing Health: What is Good Health?...... CHAPTER THREE Methodology, Data Availability and Limitations of Study....... CHAPTER FOUR Findings/Results.................................................................. _________________________________________ Monitoring the Health of US Professional Athletes examines the health status of professional athletes in the United States, with a focus on the body-mass-index (BMI) of players in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for the 2005-2006 season. The st...

Sister Style
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Sister Style

Afro-textured hair and the CROWN Act -- What black women political elites look like matters -- Candid conversations, black women political elites, & appearances -- Sisterly discussions on black women candidates -- Is there a black woman candidate prototype? -- Voter responses to black women candidates -- Linked fate, black voters, and black women candidates -- Conclusion.

Sudan Media Makers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

Sudan Media Makers

"In this book, Mohamed A. Satti identifies and interviews six prominent Sudanese media personalities in the diaspora to tell their stories, examine their contributions to Sudanese media, and connect their stories to the history of Sudan"--

Governance and Democracy in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 144

Governance and Democracy in Africa

The challenge facing African leaders is whether to completely adopt democratic institutions as its form of governance. The book examines Africa’s experience with this form of democratic governance since independence and its impact on economic performance.

Gender Roles
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 939

Gender Roles

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-14
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Offers a sociological perspective of gender that can be applied to our lives. Focusing on the most recent research and theory–both in the U.S. and globally–Gender Roles, 6e provides an in-depth, survey and analysis of modern gender roles and issues from a sociological perspective. The text integrates insights and research from other disciplines such as biology, psychology, anthropology, and history to help build more robust theories of gender roles.

African & American
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

African & American

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-08-29
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Examines what it means to be African and American through the stories of recent West African immigrants African & American tells the story of the much overlooked experience of first and second generation West African immigrants and refugees in the United States during the last forty years. Interrogating the complex role of post-colonialism in the recent history of black America, Marilyn Halter and Violet Showers Johnson highlight the intricate patterns of emigrant work and family adaptation, the evolving global ties with Africa and Europe, and the translocal connections among the West African enclaves in the United States. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, including original interviews, ...

The Scattered Family
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

The Scattered Family

Today’s unprecedented migration of people around the globe in search of work has had a widespread and troubling result: the separation of families. In The Scattered Family, Cati Coe offers a sophisticated examination of this phenomenon among Ghanaians living in Ghana and abroad. Challenging oversimplified concepts of globalization as a wholly unchecked force, she details the diverse and creative ways Ghanaian families have adapted long-standing familial practices to a contemporary, global setting. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, Coe uncovers a rich and dynamic set of familial concepts, habits, relationships, and expectations—what she calls repertoires—that have developed over time, through previous encounters with global capitalism. Separated immigrant families, she demonstrates, use these repertoires to help themselves navigate immigration law, the lack of child care, and a host of other problems, as well as to help raise children and maintain relationships the best way they know how. Examining this complex interplay between the local and global, Coe ultimately argues for a rethinking of what family itself means.